Originally Posted by
BumpedAgain
good fare - but with Delta you're not earning 17,690 miles...EQM yes...but now with DL Diamond...you'll only get 7,920 miles (oops - less than that since it's CAD!!!) as opposed to 39,803....that's about $400 less value in mileage (I used to value at about $0.013/mile)....so the economics no longer work...I'd rather pay more money with another airline and earn more miles.....good bye Delta....check please.....
No one has MR for Skymiles for years. Only MQMs matter (we don't call them EQMs).
Originally Posted by
TVSportsGuy
Excuse my ignorance...but isn't the point of doing something like this (unless you have family in HKG) to get yourself to elite status for next year? I get that the redeemable miles stink on Delta...that's absolutely true. But if you want to get to Diamond status (or any status for that matter) in 2016, isn't this a great flight for that?
Exactly. All that matters for MR is lowest CPM for the MQMs for status. This is a good price. IMO anything under 4CPM for 2015 is an OK price for a Delta MR.